Pleasure of serving as congresswoman alma adams first legislative director and help get the hbcu caucus started and amazing to see all that the congresswoman and staff have done since then. Today you all are joining us for a really important conversation about the ways at that government, philanthropy and business can support our hbcus and sustaining them into the future and with that im going to invite the congresswoman up to get us started. [applause] good afternoon. Good afternoon. Im still hbcu strong. Thank you all for being here today and thank you shaniqua and thank you all for joining us. Im congresswoman alma adams and it is my pleasure to represent the 12th Congressional District in North Carolina, charlotte, mecklenburg, and cabarras county. Give it up for the queen city. [applause] i want to thank especially our same guests who will participate on todays hbcu brain trust. Id like to thank the members of the first bipartisan hbcu tour here. When i started this caucus eight y
In North Carolina, charlotte. A special yeah. Give it up to the queen city. I want to thank especially our esteemed guests. I would lick to thank the members of the first bipartisan here. When i started 8 years ago, i had no idea that we would grow to have more than 100 members but now 8 years in i know that the strength is a strength of how much support we had. Last year we were about to get ignite funding for hbcu through appropriations. Because of the work that we did, 50 million in grants are available to our schools. All right. [applause] make transformative investment and, of course, this includes research productivity, fact ultimatey expertise, graduate programs. Human capital leading to external funding. The investments made in our schools today in investment in the future and so i just yaws myself as an example. I am a living testament for importance of hbcu. My mother raised me. She did domestic work. She was not formally educated but understood the value of education and the
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Why not start cnn tonight with don lemon early. Enough is never enough. Ten whole seconds, wow. Youre so generous. Whats clear to us with fauci is this president strategy is destroy the Truth Tellers. And i dont think it will work with fauci. In fact, it may backfire. When you hear Lindsey Graham saying no, no, no, dont do this. You have to think about whether or not this is a strategy that helps the president in his own mind. Youre right. All the Truth Tellers have to do is just hold and just wait. Long enough. They say the truth comes out in the rinse. Just hold on and hold out and the truth will come. The truth will set you free. I think i agree that trying to destroy someone when they say you dig one ditch you better dig two. The next one might be for you. Thats the Trump Administration and the people trying to do that with dr. Fauci. Should heed that advice. Thats an old cliche. It is true. Never take glee in someones downfall and never take glee in trying to destroy someone. It a
Picking up firearms. John, i want to thank you. Kirsten foye, i want to thank you. I really appreciate your comments. The nypd members of the nypd, were so grateful youre here. John miller and jeffrey madre. Brian williams, thank you for helping us understand what happens in the hospital and the real trauma. Chief ramsey, we have you on all the time. You always speak with such authority and of course my colleague, sara sidner out there on the streets almost daily covering these stories. We appreciate you joining us as well. This is a tough conversation that we all that is the only way were going to get this issue under control. So weve had a productive conversation and i hope we can build on it for the future so thanks to all of my guests, thanks to you for listening and thank you for watching as well. Im don lemon. Our coverage continues. Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and all around the world. Youre watching cnn newsroom and im rosemary church.